Retrograde Calendar
About Retrograde Calendar
Station times, degrees, durations, and shadow periods for every retrograde of the year — computed astronomy, not folklore.
No planet ever backs up; the loop is a trick of parallax as Earth laps a slower world or is lapped by a faster one. The tradition reads it accordingly. A changes a planet's gear, not its meaning; matters under its sponsorship come round again for review, revision, repair. The days that carry real weight are the , when a planet stands still to turn. Mark those dates, not the whole stretch.
☿︎Mercury retrograde 1867· three times this year
The classic season of crossed wires; three or four short spells a year. Re-read, re-confirm, back up the files; let the signature wait for the turning day if it can.
Retrograde 17 Mar – 09 Apr (3 weeks), 10°52' Aries back to 28°25' Pisces; shadow from 03 Mar to 28 Apr. Stations at 07:26 and 14:14 UT.
Retrograde 20 Jul – 13 Aug (3 weeks), 17°08' Leo back to 5°31' Leo; shadow from 02 Jul to 27 Aug. Stations at 09:01 and 10:29 UT.
Retrograde 11 Nov – 01 Dec (3 weeks), 7°47' Sagittarius back to 21°36' Scorpio; shadow from 23 Oct to 19 Dec. Stations at 14:16 and 11:31 UT.
♀︎Venus retrograde 1867· once this year
Retrograde 21 Nov 1866 – 01 Jan (6 weeks), 27°07' Sagittarius back to 11°50' Sagittarius; shadow from 20 Oct 1866 to 01 Feb. Stations at 03:22 and 01:00 UT.
♂︎Mars retrograde 1867· once this year
Retrograde 01 Dec 1866 – 18 Feb (11 weeks), 0°15' Leo back to 11°10' Cancer; shadow from 30 Sep 1866 to 26 Apr. Stations at 22:11 and 14:50 UT.
The slow planets
Jupiter outward, a planet spends four to five months of every year retrograde; that is ordinary weather, not an event. The slower the planet, the longer the spell and the less it asks of any single day. Mark the stations; the rest is season.
♃︎Jupiter retrograde 1867· once this year
Retrograde 27 Jun – 24 Oct (17 weeks), 7°32' Pisces back to 27°40' Aquarius; shadow from 02 Apr to 14 Jan 1868. Stations at 00:36 and 07:21 UT.
♄︎Saturn retrograde 1867· once this year
Retrograde 03 Mar – 22 Jul (20 weeks), 24°06' Scorpio back to 17°26' Scorpio; shadow from 27 Nov 1866 to 28 Oct. Stations at 21:20 and 03:36 UT.
♅︎Uranus retrograde 1867· twice this year
Retrograde 14 Oct 1866 – 12 Mar (21 weeks), 8°23' Cancer back to 4°17' Cancer; shadow from 29 Jun 1866 to 27 Jun. Stations at 12:27 and 23:31 UT.
Retrograde 19 Oct – 16 Mar 1868 (21 weeks), 12°53' Cancer back to 8°47' Cancer; shadow from 04 Jul to 01 Jul 1868. Stations at 09:29 and 17:39 UT.
♆︎Neptune retrograde 1867· once this year
Retrograde 19 Jul – 24 Dec (23 weeks), 15°04' Aries back to 12°16' Aries; shadow from 27 Mar to 13 Apr 1868. Stations at 00:30 and 00:15 UT.
♇︎Pluto retrograde 1867· twice this year
Retrograde 15 Aug 1866 – 27 Jan (24 weeks), 15°10' Taurus back to 13°11' Taurus; shadow from 12 Apr 1866 to 30 May. Stations at 00:06 and 06:53 UT.
Retrograde 16 Aug – 28 Jan 1868 (24 weeks), 16°06' Taurus back to 14°08' Taurus; shadow from 13 Apr to 30 May 1868. Stations at 06:25 and 11:11 UT.
All times Universal Time (UT), from the same engine as the sky. Spells that open or close beyond the calendar year are listed with their own year on the date; the window belongs to both years and appears on both pages. On doctrine: a retrograde conditions a planet's expression; it does not doom it. The working tradition keeps no list of forbidden days, a spell that repeats a is one process rather than three misfortunes, and the shadow is context, not an extension of the sentence. The stations are the moments that matter; what a planet touches while standing still, it means.